pidgin/pidgin

Merged in release-2.x.y (pull request #695)
release-2.x.y
2020-05-19, Gary Kramlich
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Merged in release-2.x.y (pull request #695)

Revert the pr-262/ticket-17232, it's caused more harm than good.

Approved-by: Elliott Sales de Andrade
Approved-by: Eion Robb
How to build Pidgin for Windows using MinGW
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For the latest build instructions, please refer to:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin